Marian with Mrs. Nakamura
Short Fiction
"Mrs. Nakamura" in the Mississippi Review, summer 2005 online edition and fall 2005 special print edition. mississippireview.com/2005/Vol11No3-Jul05/1103-070105-Pierce.html
"A Craving for Bread" in Puerto del Sol, February, 2003.
"Finding Land" in the anthology Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997.
"Death by Mochi" in the Spring, 1996 issue of STORY.
"Telling Them" in Confrontation, Fall, 1997.
"Our Beautiful Clock" first appeared in a 1996 issue of STORY magazine, and was later reprinted in the textbook Creative Writer's Handbook (3rd edition), and online at: marylhurst.edu/mreview/archive/2003/clock.htm
"The Hazards of Golf," in the November, 1995 issue of GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly).
NONFICTION
"At the Saizeriya", eating Italian in suburban Tokyo.
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